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Same-sex marriage officially signed into law in Australia
Same-sex marriage has been officially signed into law in Australia, a day after MPs overwhelmingly approved a historic bill. Australia's Governor-General Peter Cosgrove signed off on the law on Friday - a formality required to enact the legislation. The vote on Thursday set off rarely matched celebrations in parliament, including cheers, hugs and a song. Supporters celebrated across Australia, many donning rainbow colours.
"So it is all done. It is part of the law of the land," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said after a brief ceremony on Friday.
He said the law would take effect immediately after midnight.The first marriage ceremonies will happen from 9 January, given couples must give a month's notice of their intention to wed.
MP Tim Wilson proposed to his gay partner from the floor of Parliament during the debate.
Meanwhile: Austria to allow same-sex marriage with couples able to legally marry from 2019 at latest
Austria's top court has ruled that same-sex couples can marry from 2019 at the latest, bringing the often conservative Alpine country into line with more than a dozen other European nations. Gay marriage is now recognised in more than 20 countries, of which 16 are in Europe. "The Constitutional Court nullified with a decision on December 4, 2017 the legal regulation that until now prevented such couples from marrying," a statement released on Tuesday said. It said however that the current rules would remain in place until December 31, 2018 unless Austria's parliament changes the law before then.
Previously: Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage
Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage
Australians Approve of Same-Sex Marriage in Non-Binding Vote
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday December 09 2017, @06:36PM (5 children)
THE PREDICTOR: Gaaark (somewhere, somehow)
THE PREDICTION: gay people will marry
And gay people will divorce, so FUCK YOU to gay people, too!, HAHAHAHA! We don't need no straights havin' all da fun!
;)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 09 2017, @07:09PM (4 children)
Married gays and lesbos are by far the cattiest and most argumentative and disagreeable couples I've ever met, and I feel triply sorry for the kids some of them have adopted.
If being kicked in the genitalia or swimming in a pool full of bullet ants was a compulsory rite of passage for straights but denied to gays, you bet your ass those gays would be fighting for those "rights" because they want to be "normal, too."
I don't even know why a gay would want to get married at all -- I've always envied the gays in that it's a hell of a lot easier for them to get laid. There's none of this "taking them out to dinner" shit, or pretending what they have to say is interesting, or all of those other annoying hoops to jump through which are inherent in straight dating.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday December 09 2017, @08:18PM (2 children)
Man, that's fucked but oh so true: getting laid would be easier. "You had me at 'Hi!' Let's fuck!"
If my wife went for that line, .....man.....
:)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @06:39AM (1 child)
She did
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @01:41PM
Worked for me too +1
(Score: 0, Troll) by Goddess Savitri Devi on Sunday December 10 2017, @03:13AM
You speak the truth, oddly-named one.
But you miss the important point, which is that the inferior (which includes these unnatural abominations) must be removed from the Earth, to purify it for the Aryan race and our thousand year reich!
Heil Fuhrer! Give us the Aryan paradise you've promised!
Shiva shall rain death upon non-Aryan scum